Where the fuck is my axe?
Oct. 3rd, 2002 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_siobhanI am not having a good day.
My computer is fucked. Fucked. I've gone through the entire windows troubleshooting menu and reinstalled the OS, and it still will only boot up into safe mode. And crashes in that.
Everything is on that computer. I am not happy.
And I've sprung another leak. A bad one this time -- the hole where they put the drain just opened up spontaneously and started weeping last night. I patched myself up with gauze, but it won't stop. I didn't even do anything worthwhile to make it do this.
It throbs a constand reminder. And I'm so frustrated I could scream.
Fuck. This.
I'm going to the grocery store and I'm going to buy myself something nutritious and healing to eat for my lunch. Then I'm going to have a good cry, or maybe a temper-tantrum, whichever I feel more like.
Then I'll go back to work.
Fuck
My computer is fucked. Fucked. I've gone through the entire windows troubleshooting menu and reinstalled the OS, and it still will only boot up into safe mode. And crashes in that.
Everything is on that computer. I am not happy.
And I've sprung another leak. A bad one this time -- the hole where they put the drain just opened up spontaneously and started weeping last night. I patched myself up with gauze, but it won't stop. I didn't even do anything worthwhile to make it do this.
It throbs a constand reminder. And I'm so frustrated I could scream.
Fuck. This.
I'm going to the grocery store and I'm going to buy myself something nutritious and healing to eat for my lunch. Then I'm going to have a good cry, or maybe a temper-tantrum, whichever I feel more like.
Then I'll go back to work.
Fuck
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hold the axe for a moment
Date: 2002-10-03 11:39 am (UTC)hard to say with this little information what is wrong with it. how did it originally die, before you reinstalled the OS? just reinstalling doesn't get rid of possibly problematic stuff, as kalmn said; that can hang around in the registry, or in the form of a bad driver.
or it could be a hardware problem. how it dies might be informative -- any error messages? BSOD (blue screen of death)?
one way to get your data off if even safe mode doesn't work is to install the OS onto another partition, boot into that, and then you can get things from the old one. unless, of course, there is a drive hardware problem. if you don't have another partition, but your drive isn't full, you can use a program like partition magic to non-destructively resize the old one to make room for a new one. partition magic rocks.
what you really need here, however, is some serious windows geek help, preferably in person, because debugging a broken windows install is a bear even in person, nevermind over LJ.